A little girl in footsie pajamas curls up, snuggling close to her teddy bear. In a yellow suitcase. At the bottom of a river.
Right from the opening scenes of “True Story,” director Rupert Goold shocks his audiences into reevaluating morality and truth in his riveting film adaptation inspired by real life events.
Divers discovered two suitcases, each holding the crumpled bodies of his wife and 2-year-old daughter...

As the crown dropped on her head, it turned the rape victim into a beauty queen. The stage she used to pledge for change became the platform she used to transform ideas into action.
The dark theater in the Beach Auditorium at California State University, Long Beach shed some light on a bleak subject during Tuesday’s screening of “Brave Miss World.” CSULB Women’s Gender and Equity Center, with funding from...

Just like the maturation of cheese, “Age of Adaline” slowly but surely became what almost every romantic film falls victim to: cliché and tolerable with a glass of wine.
The movie starts off with Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) who suffers a curse of staying 29-years-old forever after a freak car accident during a stormy night. After decades of running in fear of being suspected, Adaline falls in love with...

Hollywood’s most recent racial controversy is rooted in the upcoming film “Ghost in the Shell,” a remake of the 1995 original Japanese film and adaptation of the cyberpunk manga series.
Golden Globe winning actress Scarlett Johansson plays the main character, Major...

Hipsters, unite! “Growing Up and Other Lies” makes it to the must-see list of meaningful-core films.
With a screenplay dependent upon dialogue and the niche aesthetic of desaturation crucial to indie aesthetics, directors Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky put the anti-coming-of-age genre back on the marquee. “Growing up” will be released to theaters on March 20.
Memory lane stretches across all of Manhattan, New...